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Eupora

This afternoon a reporter came out from the local TV network to do an interview.  The ponies are waiting out the impending storm in a pasture with a barn to shelter under and I am revelling in the unexpected and … Continue reading

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Rainy Day Pony Photos

Yesterday the ponies got up on the wrong side of Bedlam.  They’d spent three nights in a row tethered in fairly close quarters – Jesse had managed to get himself wrapped around a tree two out of those three nights and Finehorn … Continue reading

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Chasing Spring

The Southern Mississippi forests are like something out of a fairy tale.  Thick tangled vines writhe from tree to taller tree, spanish moss hangs like moth-eaten curtains, the kudzu has yet to leaf out and covers whole areas in shrouds of … Continue reading

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Distance Over Time

You can’t fight gravity – except perhaps with laughter.  Likewise, there are laws of physics (the study of the natural world and how it actually works) that on a Journey of this type must be accepted and surrendered to, gracefully or not.  … Continue reading

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Caring for the Herd

My biggest concern about Katie coming to join the Free Range Rodeo was something that I had no control over, couldn’t anticipate and couldn’t discuss with those who would be most directly affected.  It was herd business and thus out … Continue reading

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morning conversation

I was a bomber pilot in WW2 now I’m legally blind I spent 7 years in University now I can’t read or write I’ve been married for 65 years and we’ve never had a fight It’s my 93rd Birthday today … Continue reading

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Finding the Way – Semper Gumby

Tuesday Katie and I stopped at the post office in Whitehall so I could mail off a small package.  The woman behind the counter said “you’re not from around here, are you?”  “Nope, I’m riding horseback across the country.” Her face … Continue reading

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bridging the gap

It’s been two weeks since my last blog post – oops!  Today I was several paragraphs into a post before I realized that I needed to catch you all up on some recent events in order for what I was … Continue reading

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Louisiana

   I am writing to you from a jail cell in Derry, Louisiana.  It’s warm and dry and yet another first.  The ponies are unconcerned since they are grazing a 40 acre pasture nearby and the promised storm has not … Continue reading

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The Only Constant is Change

I am writing today from Louisiana with much to tell and an incredibly glitchy internet connection.  I just spent the better part of the morning writing a 1500 word blog post only to have it disappear when I tried to … Continue reading

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